You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.

The object is freedom.

Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.

Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight.

The Trade Center dead formed a kind of universal parliament.

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

I never felt like I was stealing anyone's fans as much as I was introducing some younger people to comedy who will eventually find tons of other comedians that they love.

Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it.

The light of the supra-conscious, of salvakalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, is not connected to this world at all. It passes through this world but it is not part of this world, in a way of speaking.

I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

The Clinton camp has been able to project that kind of neo-McCarthy hysteria: that Russia is responsible for everything.